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Apple telling reps to smooth over iPhone 4 reception complaints, not to offer free bumpers?

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2010/Jun/30

Typical Apple denial story again! It doesn’t recognize its own design flaw, but it is telling its users they are stupid! Read from source…
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Apps, Microsoft

Talking about First Look at Windows Live Essential Wave 4 Beta’s New Social Features

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2010/Jun/26

Quote First Look at Windows Live Essential Beta’s New Social Features Yesterday, Microsoft dropped the new Windows Live Essentials beta, adding tons of new publishing and web service options to their suite of consumer desktop applications. Here’s a look what’s changed in the beta and how the new apps stack…
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Editorials

Windows 7 Tablets and Custom OEM UI’s – An Update

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2010/Jun/01

Searching the NET today, I came across an old article of the Windows 7 Team on the topic of TOUCH for Windows 7. It is a rather interesting article in that it details the touch feature in Windows 7. It even mentioned by an argument against my request for a…
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IT, Security, & Privacy

Windows 7 Tablets and Custom OEM UI’s

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2010/May/31

These past few weeks I was about to write MS off. It was all negative news, one after the other, it seemed there was no end in sight. But what do you know, Computex is turning out to be a success for the Windows platform for Tablets and Slates. OEMs…
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Editorials

A Dude’s Dilemma in a Post Microsoft world

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2010/May/29

If we may believe the Anti-Microsoft camp, MS is dead, at least in the mobile device arena. See this past week the bickering between Google and Apple. Before, these two were hand-in-glove to see to the demise of MS (even Eric Schmidt was on the board of directors of Apple), now…
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IT, Security, & Privacy

So Long Microsoft?

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2010/May/29

Ok, so it is official; Apple has passed Microsoft in Market Cap. In layman’s lingo, Apple is now more profitable than MS. Is this really so? Going Microsoft now the way of IBM of the 80’s? I think it will definitely happen if MS does not re-invent itself, and…
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Devices

Enter The Nexus

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2010/Mar/22

Well time has come for me to switch up my cellphone. My old phone, the T-Mobile G1 (The HTC Dream), has served its usefulness for the year and a half I…
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Devices

On the iPAD and TabletPC – Huraah! A baby is born!!

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2010/Feb/08

Hello there iPAD, welcome to our world. You turned out uglier than we expected and you miss a lot attributes or shall I say appendages; and what an awful name your father gave you, I am sure you’re not proud of it, possibly you will change your own name when…
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Apple

iPademonium

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2010/Jan/28

I had the pleasure of being able to catch some of the Apple announcement coverage on Leo Laporte’s TWiT stream.
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Editorials

Wake up Call

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2009/Nov/27

I was prompted today to vent my frustration with MS. Please find my MS feedback as below: Hi, I am an staunch MS supporter, defending popular opnion and FUDs about MS Products, but boy I am getting really pissed right now? I visited your MS Reader page today to see…
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IT, Security, & Privacy

Kill Microsoft!!!!!?

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2009/Nov/06

Well, here we go again! I bet some people will be thinking I am being paid by Microsoft to write this, but nothing could be further from the truth. We in the industry are noticing a certaing worrysome trend at the moment. Nobody says doing business is always fair, but…
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Editorials

Has School Become Too Structured?

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2009/Feb/26

If you take a look at the schools today, what is the real point of school? Is it to teach kids, or have teachers become out of control? Are kids too stressed to get the right grade to even learn? Here’s an example: a boy, let’s call him Fred, is…
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Reviews

How Long Can Movie Theaters Last?

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2009/Feb/26

I was at the movie theater the other day seeing Paul Blart: Mall Cop (which was okay, by the way…they tried to be a little too funny) and I was thinking: With media technology advancing quickly, how long can the traditional movie theater last? Can’t we just watch movies in our…
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IT, Security, & Privacy

The Windows 7 Taskbar discussion

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2009/Jan/22

I don’t normally react to every garbage I come across on the Net, but these days a lot pseudo-intellectuals fill the great void of the Internet, and they spew a lot mis-information; a-la Apple’s Vista campaign with its trolls. However when someone like Paul Thurrott talks or comments on technology…
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Apps

How Do You Download Free Software?

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2008/Dec/31

Do you like to download legally free software you’d otherwise have to pay for? Then check out Giveaway of the Day. This site offers new, licensed, and free software every day. Each license is available for download during the 24 hour period. After that, they post something new. The license is…
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